✦ TWICE HE'D ADJUSTED HIS GLASSES, AND BOTH times they had fizzled out of focus, the interface glitching horribly. kingsman equipment did not just lose signal. there could be any number of reasons — along the range of high-spec interference to outright alien abduction — preventing headquarters from responding to their frantic distress signalling, but it did not make their predicament any less hairy. one failure to connect was a fluke, but twice in a row was an obvious wall between them and painless escape. shit, hell, fuck.
at least he and @amouralgia had been deemed too ungainly and unimportant to be placed in separate jail cells; always safety in numbers, after all. “right. two choices are before us, and we only need one way to escape, or die trying. do you want the hard option or the harder option?”